Fiona Vera-Gray

We are thrilled to welcome to the bookshop Feminist academic Dr Fiona Vera-Gray. Following on from her publication of the largest ever study focused on the content of mainstream online pornography, Fiona's new book Women On Porn attacks one of Feminism's last taboos head on.

Join us this International Women's Day for glass of wine and a night of provocative and eye-opening discussion.

Women On Porn

When we think about porn today, we still mostly think about men. Men as the producers and the consumers. Women as the product. Most women aren’t talking to each other about what they do and don’t do with porn - not really. And when we do talk about it, we are divided into unhelpful binaries: for or against? Liberation or coercion? Too sexual or not sexual enough? But in a world where porn sites get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon plus Twitter combined, and one of the leading sites claims a third of its users are women, isn’t it time to change that?

In this book, interviews with 100 women result in an extraordinary and powerful conversation on pornography. How they first encountered it. How they consume it. How it has affected their sex lives. What they like and what they don’t. And what it means for their relationships.

About Fiona Vera-Gray

Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray is one of the UK's leading feminist academics working on sexual violence and she has a decade's experience in the frontline of the anti-violence against women movement. She is currently a Reader at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University and the author of two academic books on street harassment.

In March 2021, Fiona published the largest ever study on the content of mainstream online pornography, gaining significant media coverage including the BBC, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, New York Times, and Women's Hour. She has been commissioned to write for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Independent, and has appeared in documentaries about porn and its impact